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HEADQUARTERS  ARMY  TENNESSEE,) 
Dalton,  Ga.,  Jan.  8,  1864.      | 

General  Orders,  No.  5. 

I.  The  following  regulations  are  published  for  the  government 
of  the  troops  of  this  army  in  camp.  They  arc  to  be  read  at  the 
head  of  each  company  at  least  once  every  week.  Copies  are  to 
be  furnished  all  iield,  staff  and  company  officers : 


1st.  The  hours  <*f  service 

Reveille,  :         :         : 

Police,      :         : 

Surgeon's  Call, 

Stable  Call,       : 

First  Sergeant's  Call, 

Prcakfast,  : 

Adjutant's  Call, 

Drill,        :         : 

Officers' Drill, 

Dinner,    :         : 

Drill,         :         : 

Guard  Mounting, 

Stable  Call,       : 

Camp  and  Company  Police, 

Dress  Parade,    : 

S  upper,     :         : 

Tattoo,      :         : 

Taps,         :         : 


md  |pll  call  as  follows  : 
^Vt  day-light. 
Immediately  after  reveille. 
Fifteen  minutes  after  reveille. 
Fifteen  minutes  after  reveille. 
Half  hour  after  rcrcille. 
At  sunrise. 
At  9  A.  M. 

From  10  to  Hi  A.  M. 
From  11  A.  M.  to  12  M. 
At  12$  P.  M. 
From  2£  to  4  P.  M. 
At  4  P.  M. 
At  4  P.  M. 
At  4-£  P.  M. 
At  sunset. 

Immediately  after  parade. 
At  8  P.  M.' 
One  hour  after  tattoo. 


Men  are  not  to  be  excused  from  duty  of  any  kind  except  for 
disability  by  their  medical  officers,  and  for  meritorious  conduct, 
by  their  regimental  commanders,  or  officers  of  higher  rank.  Com- 
pany commanders  and  their  subalterns  are  specially  prohibited 
from  assuming  this  power  in  any  case  whatever. 

II.  The  roll  of  the  enlisted  men  of  each  company  is  to  be 
called,  by  the  First  Sergeant,  at  reveille,  at  morning  and  after- 
noon drill,  at  dress  parade,  and  at  tattoo. 


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III.  The  artillery  of  each  division,  though  it  may  be  camped 
separately,  is  to  report  to  Division  Head-Quarters,  and  Division 
Commanders  arc  responsible  for  the  clue  observance  of  all  orders 
therein. 

In  the  artillery,  all  company  officers  are  to  attend  the  stable 
call. 

In  the  Quartermaster's  department,  Division  Commanders  are 
to  enforce  the  same  rules,  in  respect  to  the  care  of  the  animals, 
as  in  the  artillery ;  requiring  all  Quartermasters  to  attend  the 
stable  ci  Is  for  the  animals  of  their  trains;  and  in  that  depart- 
ment, as  also  in  the  Commissary,  Ordnance,  and  Medical  Depart- 
ments, they  are  to  require  roll  Alls  and  reports  of  absentees  at 
reveille  and  tattoo,  and  the  due  performance  of  police  and  other 
necessary  duties. 

IV.  On  Sundays  there  are  no  drills.  Inspection  is  to  be  at  10 
A.  M.,  under  the  personal  supervision  of  the  brigade  command- 
ers, and  the  commanders  of  divisions  are  to  supervise  these  in- 
spections, being  present  With  one  of  their  brigades  each  Sunday. 

Once  a  week,  the  commander  of  each  division,  accompanied  by 
all  bis  brigade  commanders,  will  visit  and  thoroughly  inspect  the 
camp  of  each  brigade,  including  stores   and  Held  transportation. 

Whenever  practicable,  religious  services  are  to  be  held  in  camp 
on  Sundays,  when  the  utmost  decorum  is  t)  be  observed.  Reli- 
gious services  at  night  are  not  to  extend  beyond  taps. 

Y.  At  reveille  and  tattoo,  the  men  are  to  be  in  ranks  when 
the  drum  stops  beating.  A  preparatory  signal  is  to  be  beaten 
five  minutes  before  all  other  calls,  at  which  the  men  assemble  on 
their  company  grounds.  Rank*  are  formed  at  the  second  beating 
of  the  drum.  When  it  stops  the  companies  are  called  to  atten- 
tion, and  those  who  fall  in  after  this  are  to  be  reported  as  "late." 

First  Sergeants  are  to  commit  their  rolls  to  memory,  call  them 
promptly,  and  immediately  report  to  the  company  officers  of 
highest  rank  present.  When  there  are  more  than  one  of  the 
same  surname  numbers  are  to  be  used. 

At  reveille  and  tattoo,  all  company  officers,  are  to  be  present, 
and  at  least  one  is  to  be  present  at  all  other  roll  calls. 

First  Sergeants  enter  first  in  order  for  fatigue  details  ;  all  ab 
sentees,  "  lates,"  and  men  whoso  arms  or  accoutrements  are  in 


bad  condition,  or  who  are  neglectful  of  cleanliness  in  their  per- 
sons, clothing,  or  tents. 

The  company  officer  to  whom  absentees  are  reported  at  any 
roll  call  immediately  reports  them  to  the  Adjutant  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  the  Adjutant  reports  to  the  Regimental  Commander  the 
company  officers  improperly  absent  from  such  roll  call,  and  the 
regimental  commander  reports  to  the  Commander  of  the  Brigade. 
The  officers, to  whom  absentees  are  reported  are  to  tak<  prompt 
measures  for  arresting  and  bringing  .them  to  punishmen 

VI.  At  Surgeon's  call,  the  sick  in  camp  assemble  on  iheir  re- 
spective company  grounds,  and  are  marched  to  the  hospital  hy  a 
non  com missioned  officer,  one  of^vhom  is  detailed  daily  for  that 
duty.  Xniii'  are  to  present  themselves  for  treatment  except  in 
this  manner,  without  special  permission.  The  non-commissioned 
officer  takes  with  him  the  company  siek  book,  and  returns  it  to 
the  First  Sergeant  after  the  Surgeon  has  made  the  proper  entries 
therein. 

Company,  Eegimental  and  Brigade  Commanders  are  required, 
at  all  times,  to  know  how  their  sick  are  situated,  and  are  responsi- 
ble for  the  prevention  of  neglect  and  ill-treatment  within  the 
limits  of  their  respective  commands.  It  is  likewise  made  their 
duty  to  see  that  the  dead  are  decently  interred,  and  the  places  of 
burial  suitably  enclosed. 

VII.  At  the  call  for  guard  mounting,  the  several  guard  details 
assemble  on  their  respective  regimental  color  lines,  are  carefully 
inspected,  aud  then  marched  to  the  general  parade  ground  by  the 
First  Sergeant.  Guards  are  to  he  mounted  strictly  in  accordance 
with  the  Army  Regulations,  under  the  personal  supervision  of  a 
brigade  staff  officer,  and  the  several  regimental  Adjutants  are  to 
alternate  in  mounting  the  same.  The  guard  house  of  each  bri- 
gade is  to  be  sixty  yards  in  front  of  the  color  line,  and  near  the 
center  of  the  brigade,  when  the  ground  will  admit  of  it.  All 
calls  are  to  be  sounded  at  the  brigade  guard  house  and  promptly 
repeated  at  the  several  regimental  head-quarters. 

VIII.  The  old  guard,  upon  the  next  day  after  being  relieved 
is  to  be  the  general  fatigue  party  for  that  day.     Its  duties  are  to 
clean    thoroughly    all    the   encampment,    except    the    company 
grounds,  and  to  perform  such  other  labor  as  may  be  necessary. 


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A  non-commissioned  officer  and  a  sufficient  number  of*  privates 
of  each  company  are  to  be  detailed  daily  as  company  police,  and 
arc  to  thoroughly  clean  their  company  grounds  immediately  after 
breakfast,  and  again  at  -H  P.  M.  The  Commanding  Officer  of 
each  company  inspects  his  company  grounds  immediately  after 
the  times  above  prescribed.  At  these  inspections  the  quarters 
are  to  be  in  perfect  order,  knapsacks  properly  packed,  and  bed- 
ding neatly  folded — the  occupants  of  each  tent  or  hut  remaining 
in  front  of  the  same  during  its  inspection. 

The  brigade  officer  of  the  day  is  responsible  for  the  due  per- 
formance of  all  police  and  fatigue  duty  within  or  near  his  lines. 
lie  is  specially  charged  with  sefl|iig  that  the  sinks  of  regiments 
and  offal  pits  of  companies  are  properly  placed  and  arranged ? 
and  fresh  earth  thrown  into  them  daily  ;  that  slaughter  pens  are 
kept  at  least  half  a  mile  from  the  camps,  and  not  near  any  thor- 
oughfare- the  offal  there  buried  daily,  and  the  hides  removed  ; 
that  the  wagon-yards  and  other  places  of  keeping  animals  are 
regularly  and  well  policed  ;  and  that  nothing  offensive  to  decency 
or  detrimental  to  health  be  anywhere  visible. 

IX.  At  the  signal  for  parade,  each  company  is  formed  on  its 
own  company  ground,  under  arms,  and  is  thoroughly  inspected  by 
its  officers.  When  the  music  begins  playing  the  companies  are 
marched,  in  their  proper  order,  to  the  general  parade,  which  is 
the  color  line  of  each  regiment. 

X.  At  taps,  all  lights  except  those  of  commissioned  officers, 
non  commissioned  staff,  and  First  Sergeants,  are  to  be  extinguish- 
ed, and  there  is  to  be  perfect  quiet  in  the  encampment,  one  offi- 
eer  of  each  company  remaining  on  duty  in  his  company  grounds 
for  half  an  hour  after  taps,  enforcing  obedience  to  these  require- 
ments, and  then  reports  to  the  Adjutant  of  the  regiment.  All 
lights    except  those  of  the  Field  and  Staff,  are  extinguished  at 

IIP.  M. 

XI.  Brigade,  Regimental  and  Company  Commanders  arc  re- 
quired to  give  close  and  constant  attention  to  the  quality  and 
quantity  of  the  rations  issued  to  their  men,  and  the  preparation 
of  the  same  as  food.  The  various  medical  officers  arc  to  make 
frequent  inspections  of  the  issues  of  food  and  the  cooking  uten- 
sils, and  offer  such  suggestions,  from  time  to  time,  as  may  seem 
likely  to  promote  the  health  of  the  command. 


XII.  In  each  brigade  a  brigade  guard  is  to  be  detailed  every 
day,  consisting'of  the  proper  number  of  commissioned  and  non- 
commissioned <^cers,  and  men  enough  for  a  chain  of  sentinels 
entirely  surrounding  the  brigade  encampment,  including  the  sinks, 
and,  if  practicable,  the  water. 

Between  daylight  and  dark,  officers  wearing  their  side  arms  are 
to  pass  the  chain  of  sentinels  of  the  brigade  guard  at  will ;  and 
within  this  period  enlisted  men  without  arms  and  accoutrements, 
having  the  written  permission  of  the  Brigade  Commander,  are  al- 
lowed to  pass  the  same  chain  of  sentinels.  But  this  does  not 
authorize  them  to  absent  themselves  from  any  duty  whatever, 
nor  to  go  more  than  live  hundred  «irds  from  their  camps,  unless 
they  are  General  Officers,  Brigade«or  Regimental  Commanders, 
their  Staff  Officers,  orderlies,  or  couriers,  when  on  duty. 

Between  dark  and  daylight  the  brigade  guard  challenges  all 
persons  attempting  to  pass  the  lines. 

At  all  hours,  whether  by  day  or  night,  the  brigade  guard  ar- 
rests all  disorderly  or  suspicious  persons.  All  citizens  attempt- 
ing to  come  within  the  lines  will  be  sent  to  Brigade  Headquarters. 

There  is  also  a  patrol  in  each  brigade  moving  day  and  night 
through  the  encampment,  arresting" suspicious  persons,  prevent- 
ing nuisances,  and  suppressing  all  disorders. 

XIII.  From  the  Division  there  is  detailed  daily,  or  at  longer 
intervals,  as  circumstances  may  require,  a  picket  guard,  consist- 
ing of  the  proper  number  of  commissioned  and  non-commissioned 
officers,  and  men  enough  to  cover  all  approaches  to  the  camp, 
and  to  keep  up,  by  day  and  night,  an  efficient  patrol  between  the 
several  picket  stations.  It  receives  special  instructions  from  time 
to  time.  Each  Brigade  Officer  of  the  day  has  immediate  control 
over  the  pickets  detailed  from  his  brigade,  and  is  responsible  for 
their  due  performance  of  duty. 

XIV.  Every  detachment  maintains  such  guards  as  will  effectu- 
ally preserve  order  and  prevent  surprise.  The  smaller  the  body 
the  greater  the  necessity  for  vigilance. 

While  one  relief  of  a  guard  is  on  post,  and  another  sleeps,  the 
other  relief  is  at  the  guard  house,  awake,  and  ready  for  any 
emergency. 

Officers  and  men  detailed  for  guard  duty  are  to  take  with  them 


their  blankets  and  cooked  rations,  and  are  not,  on  any  pretence, 
to  revisit  their  quarters  until  relieved,  unless  in  tta  proper  and 
necessary  discharge  of  duty.  '^K 

XV;  One  of  the  commissioned  officers  of  eggkguar  d  is  requir- 
ed to  visit  all  the  sentinels  of  each  relief,  assuring  himself  that 
they  know  and  correctly  perform  all  their  duties. 

Brigade  Ollieers  of  the  day  are  to  visit  their  guards  at  least 
once  before  dark  and  once  during  the  night,  after  12  P.  M.,  as- 
certaining that  both  ollieers  and  men  are  properly  instructed  and 
duly  vigilant. 

All  the  guards,  patrols,  fatigue  and  police  parties  of  the  com- 
mand are  under  the  general  s m  ervision  and  control  of  the  Divis- 
ion Officer  of  the  day,  and  he  is  responsible  for  their  due  perform- 
ance vt'  duty,  lie  requires  t^ose  under  him  to  make  written  re- 
ports as  soon  as  relieved,  and  forwards  the  same  to  Division  Head- 
quarters, with  such  comments  and  suggestions  as  he  may  think 
expedient.  He  reports  to  the  division  commander  in  person  when 
relieved,  accompanied  by  the  new  Division  Officer  of  the  day. 

XVI.  A  sentinel  should  always  be  ready  to  tire,  lie  must, 
however,  be  sure  of  the  presence  of  an  enemy  before  firing  ;  once 
satisfied  of  that,  he  must  lire  at  all  hazards,  as  the  safety  of  the 
command  may  depend  upon  it.  Sentinels  fire  on  all  persons  de- 
serting to  the  enemy,  or  breaking  through  the  lines  and  failing 
to  stop  when  so  ordered,  and  upon  all  persons  whom  it  is  their 
duty  to  arrest,  and  who  cannot  otherwise  be  secured. 

At  the  approack  of  officers  or  rounds  of  the  guard,  a  sentinel 
challenges,  as  prescribed  by  the  Army  Regulations.  In  other 
cases  he  orders  ki  Halt,"  "  About  face,"  and  calls  the  corporal  of 
the  guard,  with  the  number  of  the  post.  Persons  on  horseback 
are  to  dismount  when  approaching  sentinels. 

Ollieers  of  guards  are  required  so  to  regulate  the  movements  of 
the  sentinels  that  they  shall  habitually  turn  on  their  posts  at  the 
same  time,  and  all  turn  and  move  in  the  same  direction. 

Due  honors  are  to  be  paid  by  guards  and  sentinels,  facing  out- 
wards to  salute,  and  acknowledged  by  the  officers  so  compli- 
mented. Proper  salutations  are  always  to  be  exchanged  at  meet- 
ing between  officers,  and  betveen  officers  and  privates. 

XVII.  All  orders  affecting  the  troops  are  to  be  read  at  the 
head  of  each  company,  that  all  may  distinctly  hear  them. 


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The  Eules  and  Articles  of  War^if  the  Confederate  States  are 
to  be  read  to  Saph  company  immediately  before  or  after  each  mus- 
ter for  pay.  ^fc  earnestly  hoped  that  little  or  no  cause  will  be 
given  for  enforew^the  penalties  therein  pronounced  against  of- 
fenders;  but  all  are  distinctly  notified  and  solemnly  cautioned 
that  serious  violations  of  the  same  will  be  dealt  with  as  therein 
provided,  and  no  pardons  granted. 

XVIII.  A  spirit  of  courtesy  is  to  be  cultivated,  and  harmony, 
devotion  to  the  cause,  obedience  to^uperiors,  and  patient  endu- 
rance of  all  hardships  sought  to  be  made  the  distinguishing  char- 
acteristics of  both  officers  and  menj  Language  or  conduct  cal- 
culated to  cause  discontent  amonsjAe  troops  is  not  to  be  toler- 
ated, and,  in  every  instance,  the  (Sender  is  to  be  put  in  arrest 
and  brought  to  trial.  This  is  madf*the  duty  of  all  officers  of  the 
command. 

The  habit  of  entering  private  houses  uninvited,  begging  food 
from  private  families,  and  otherwise  lessening  the  comforts  or 
increasing  the  burthens  of  the  women  and  children  of  the  coun- 
try, is  unsoldierly  in  the  extreme.  The  practice  of  committing 
depredations  upon  private  properly  is  detestable.  Officers  of 
all  grades  are  to  be  held  strictly  accountable  for  the  conduct  of 
their  men  in  these  respects,  and  all  damages  suffered  by  citizens 
are  to  be  deducted  from  the  offender's  pay. 

Officers  arc  reminded  that  assiduous  attention  to  every  duty  is 
the  sacred  obligation  resting  on  them  ;  and  that  the  censure  of 
their  own  consciences,  and  of  their  countrymen  everywhere,  will 
assuredly  follow  them  up  during  the  war,  and  to  the  end  of  life, 
if  they  prove  remiss  in  any  respect.*  The  test  of  their  fidelity  is 
in  the  condition  of  the  troops  which  they  command.  Men  well 
disciplined,  well  instructed,  and  well  cared  for,  point  out  the 
honest  officer  and  true  patriot.  The  reverse  shows  an  officer  un- 
worthy of  his  position,  and  faith  1  ess  to  the  cause. 
By  command  of 

GENERAL  JOHNSTON. 

George  Wm.  Brent,  A,  A.  Geii[, 


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